Author: Harold Dalton

Meilan is one of those rare companies that hits us up on our work email and we have to quietly move them over to the Cyclry ecosystem. We’re actually not sure what their deal is. They manufacture a lot of gear that looked interesting enough for us to reply asking for a review unit, but all that happened was that they started sending us their cryptic press releases even more frequently. Look: we’re open to off-brand cycling gear. Head units and sensors are pretty much still relegated to the AliExpress category, with even the most high-end gear barely approaching technology…

The Muur-Kapelmuur. It’s a climb so tough they named it twice. Until recently, it was the decisive climb that settled the Ronde van Vlaanderen, and it’s still the one-two punch with the Bosberg that settles Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. It’s also known as the Muur van Geraardsbergen, named for the town it overlooks. Geraardsbergen is one of those anonymous grey Belgian towns that just about conceals its heroin problem enough for American tourists to be fooled by its cobbled streets. Its biggest cultural asset, apart from the cobbled hill this article is about, is a statue of a boy pissing. Not the really…

Welcome to the inaugural Cyclry monthly wrap up of pro cycling life. While it’s a month that will go down in history for a lot of reasons, there’s not a great deal of bike racing to talk about… So we’ve really picked a great time to launch this. We’re experimenting with a podcast format for this feature. Let us know if you hate it. Also let us know what platforms you’d like to see it on… Without any further ado, it’s time for a feature that always been a great hit in the car on the way to bike races:…

Cahiers du Cyclisme, January 2011 edition Cycling is unique as a mediasport not in that it’s a sport entirely devised by the media, but in that it’s a mediasport whose entire structure is wholly resistant to media coverage. Cycling was initially consumed not as sport but as literary spectacle, something you could see in person but only ever understand through the written word. The Tour de France’s conception was as serialised story in a newspaper, a grand narrative captivating its readers. Perhaps it’s for this reason the pre-war records are dismissed as fanciful, relating to a type of sport few modern fans recognise, the tales…

Digital WorldBike is happening right now. We’ll be periodically editing this post to add updates for as long as our enthusiasm holds. Welcome This is what it looks like. The backdrop changes every few seconds. If you click Conference, you can hear people talk Sport, Tech, or Mobility. If you click Expo you can look at some virtual trade show stands (and harass the company’s employees via text chat). If you click Info, you can choose between a chat room and registering for some kind of thing. Jens greets you. We saw this twice, so it probably wasn’t live unless…

We’re all stuck inside avoiding the deadly plague. Well, ok, we can see you’re still getting out on Strava. But we can’t go to the pub, which means we have plenty of free time. For that reason, some of our favourite bike mags are now free for the duration of the lockdown. We’ve included them here, plus a few free books if you’re feeling more revolutionary. Ok. Here they are, in order of how much we like them. Conquista “To give you all something to do while you’re stuck indoors we have decided to make pdf versions of all previous…

In just four days, the first ever Digital WorldBike conference will take place. Cyclry will be there as though it was a real life trade show that we’d been sent to cover, which mostly means hanging out in the food court (kitchen) chatting with our friends (cats) and then finding a Bianchi (Specialized) to photograph at the last minute so we have a story to file. In case that was too subtle, this is not a real life trade show. It’s a virtual one, so there’s no danger of catching COVID-19 or chlamydia. Plus we don’t have to comb our…

Here’s the UCI talking about postponing some test events. We’ll have confirmation of the Olympics being moved to 2021 real soon though, so just consider this news the apéro before the real thing. In the current context of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, which also affects Japan, cycling’s governing body, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), must announce that the Tokyo 2020 test events for BMX Freestyle and track cycling scheduled for 11 and 12 April, respectively in Tokyo and Izu, will not be held as originally planned. In view of the current health situation, holding the events would potentially put at…